Women remain the world’s most valuable untapped resource. Yet, across the globe, girls continue to be educated less than their male counterparts and to be the victims of violent, gender based crimes. Violence against women is not only abhorrent in its prevalence but also in its diveristy of form, ranging from the systematic rape of thousands of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the recent bought of women falling victim to acid-throwing attacks in Pakistan when they dare go to school or work.
In its State of the World Population report of 2005, the United Nations Population Fund underscores the enormous “social and economic benefits for society as a whole” of educating female populations. However, women continuously face inequity in the labor market and in political representation.
And now, with the emergence of AIDS, women are suffering from what Stephen Lewis has called a "gender based disease" disproportiantely affecting women because they have no control over thier own bodies or sexual experiences. If women continue to be uneducated, underrepresented in political spheres, and unprotected from pandemic violence, ignorance will plague their progeny and incurable diseases like AIDS will spread.
Fortunately, caring and fiercely dedicated activists worldwide are fighting to ammend these realities.
The Cecilia Attias Foundation for Women is doing so in two ways:
SUPPORT AND CONSULTING: We offer financial and other support to organizations that have demonstrated a high quality of excellence and inventiveness in addressing specific social problems affecting women today. We focus on organizations that have already implemented a plan of action, but are interested in expanding scope or quality of services. Working in French politics for over 20 years, Cecilia Attias has had experience in the media spotlight as well as extensive experience in strategic communications and management. The Foundation can provide partner organizations with valuable advice that will improve their day-to-day operations and increase awareness through media exposure.
GUARANTEE: Donors need to know that their money is doing exactly what it needs to be doing, that it is helping exactly whom it needs to be helping, and that it is creating the desired results. Cecilia Attias personally visits each site, and offers her guarantee that each donation is creating tangible, positive impact.We select organizations based on their high standards, and we ensure that those standards are consistently maintained. Our certification of support ensures complete transparency. The corporate certification is made in partnership with a global accountant institution to assure qualification to perform a task. The Foundation delivers a certificate for general work, valid for two years and renewed periodically.
Please visit our website, learn about our work, and become active in our cause in whichever way you see fit. As the common adage says, "All that is needed for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."So let us come together as good men and women and do something.
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